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Again, the white ashes heaved, and a half consumed hand and arm were thrust through the smouldering mass, then a human head, with the scalp burnt from the skull, and the flesh from the chaps and cheekbones; the trunk next appeared, the bleeding ribs laid bare, and the miserable Indian, with his limbs like scorched rafters, stood upright before us, like a demon in the midst of the fire.
The red worsted mitten came off in his grasp, and he stood eyeing it ruefully while he waited for her answer. "I've determined never, never to marry," she replied. His chest heaved. "I knew you felt that way about the other's but I thought somehow I was different," he rejoined. "No, it's not the man, but marriage that I don't like," she responded, shaking her head.
No need to ascertain by sight towards whom his looks, his thoughts were directed. He took off his hat and waved it, touching one part of it as if with particular meaning. When he turned away at last, Hepburn heaved a heavy sigh, and crept yet more into the cold dank shadow of the cliffs. Each step was now a heavy task, his sad heart tired and weary.
"But in pursuit of a certain matter which is known to you, he has found it necessary in the interests of his safety to remain out of London for a while." "Oh," Phil Abingdon heaved a great sigh. "Oh, Your Excellency, how glad I am to hear that he is safe!"
Stout denial is the thing. Don't go in for any airy explanations. Simply stick to stout denial. You can't beat it." With which expert advice, he allowed Mike to go on his way. He had not been gone two minutes, when Psmith, who had leaned back in his chair, rapt in thought, heaved himself up again.
He was a blue-eyed young Northerner, and for three days after that he had set a guard upon the portico at Uplands. The memory of the small white-faced girl, with her big army pistol and the blazing eyes haunted him from that hour until Appomattox, when he heaved a sigh of relief and dismissed it from his thoughts.
O'Keeffe's face became red as the sun in mist. The cross heaved convulsively on her black silk bosom. "To whom else? You haven't forgotten he wanted to marry me." "No, but he has, I am fearing." "What?" It was now Eileen's turn to open her eyes, and the tears dried on her lashes as she listened. Mrs. O'Keeffe explained, amid the ebb and flow of burning blood, that she had waited in vain for Mr.
I will do as you say. Wait there and you shall see." Mrs. Talcott now subsided heavily into a chair and for some fifteen minutes there was no sound but the scratching of Madame von Marwitz's pen and the deep sighs that from time to time she heaved. Then: "So: will that do?" she asked, leaning back with the deepest of the sighs and handing the pages to Mrs. Talcott.
Many a sorrowing glance was cast at this forlorn habitation as the party rode past it, and many a sigh was heaved for the poor girl who had so lately been its pride and ornament; but if any one had noticed the bitter sneer curling the reeve's lip, or caught the malignant fire gleaming in his eye, it would scarcely have been thought that he shared in the general regret.
Andrey Yefimitch counted out five hundred roubles and gave them to his friend without a word. The latter, still crimson with shame and anger, incoherently articulated some useless vow, put on his cap, and went out. Returning two hours later he flopped into an easy-chair, heaved a loud sigh, and said: "My honour is saved.
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